Whilst working with Azure functions you may come across a situation where you need to return multiple items to a queue, it isn’t immediately obvious how to do that. Placing a message on the queue from within an Azure Function typically involves placing the attribute [return: Queue("function2Queue")] on the main function body. But to add many messages you must add a parameter decorated with [Queue("function1Queue")] ICollector<__type__> to the definition of the Run method.

The example below creates an HTTP Triggered function that places multiple messages on a queue to be processed by the second function:

    public static class Function1
    {
        [FunctionName("Function1")]
        public static async Task<IActionResult> Run(
            [HttpTrigger(AuthorizationLevel.Anonymous, "post", Route = null)] HttpRequest req,
            [Queue("function1Queue")] ICollector<string> queueCollector)
        {
            queueCollector.Add("John Markson");
            queueCollector.Add("Mark Johnson");
            return new OkResult();
        }
    }

    public static class Function2
    {
        [return: Queue("function2Queue")]
        [FunctionName("Function2")]
        public static async Task Run(
            [QueueTrigger("function1Queue")] string message)
        {
            return $"C# Queue trigger function processed: {message}";
        }
    }